http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com home of karen correia da silva and starla bontecou Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:55:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/marzipan http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/marzipan#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:55:30 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1926 ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/marzipan/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/sotte http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/sotte#comments Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:57:02 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1918 Si ce n’est pas d’être impressionné Je peux aussi bien être un sac plein de sable avec une perruque et un masque de papier parlant Echos de retour d’un idéal que vous pensez vous avez déjà gagné Je me sens comme un corps sans visage spectacle pantomimes cyclique et glisser culottes pour le plaisir de votre bunker comme vous le reprendre à la ville la [...]]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/sotte/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/made-found http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/made-found#comments Fri, 09 Jul 2010 23:15:00 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1906 http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/made-found/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/innocence http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/innocence#comments Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:46:53 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1897 Às vezes me pergunto onde foi, mas seu rosto nunca era inocente. Minha intuição nunca mentiu como ele fez com os dedos calejados rastejando fora de suas mãos. Ele me fez comer a sua voz para me lembrar que eu posso ser estúpido. Ele possui nenhum conhecimento além do vazio, ele não é nada, mas [...]]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/innocence/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/let-me-fuck-your-mouth http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/let-me-fuck-your-mouth#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 06:57:41 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1889 Available this evening online, and this upcoming weekend in print: An independent review of perversity and abuse of power during the G20 summit protests, including interviews with Abby Deshman from the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Executive Director of the Toronto Distress Centre Karen Letofsky, and peaceful protesters who were beaten, degraded, and disenfranchised by police. Articles [...]]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/let-me-fuck-your-mouth/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/starla-bontecou-and-the-gentleman-present http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/starla-bontecou-and-the-gentleman-present#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 06:35:16 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1884 “POLICE STATE” Dundas Square | Monday June 28th, 2010 30 police officers attended this performance, searched our bags, and warned us about “anarchists” while telling us that they’d have to arrest us if we began to chant. ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/starla-bontecou-and-the-gentleman-present/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/police-state http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/police-state#comments Sat, 26 Jun 2010 01:57:33 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1868 Today I marched with friends and fellow Canadians in protest of the G20 summit, global commerce, globalization and the ridiculous choices the Canadian government made with regard to the allocation of tax revenue. Angry but peaceful, we were met with a startlingly aggressive police force, despite our two kilometre distance from the G20 security zone. [...]]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/police-state/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/seepferdchen-und-flugfische http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/seepferdchen-und-flugfische#comments Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:21:00 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1864 I will be reading/performing sound poetry at the Thursday Night Rent Party this Thursday, June 24th at the Cameron House. Don’t miss out on a performance of Hugo Ball’s Seepferdchen und Flugfische, and a few other auditory curiosities. Also reading with me will be the incomparable N. Alexander Armstrong, along with comedy by Sunnie D’Souza and [...]]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/seepferdchen-und-flugfische/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/sb-20 http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/sb-20#comments Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:31:19 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1846 It’s up, and it’s fresh. This month’s issue features interviews with avant-pop magicians Krupke,  indie video game developer Mark Essen, iconoclast of northern Ontario free jazz FOWL, and the Assistant Director of Born to Create Theatre Company’s The Complex. SB’s Devon Wong also writes about social responsibility and the PR battle between G20 organizers and [...]]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/sb-20/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/my-recent-interview-with-she-does-the-city http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/my-recent-interview-with-she-does-the-city#comments Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:31:55 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1849 Man! I guess I’m a bit behind on updating my blog with press and things. I’ve been busy. And sick. And lazy. I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by Monica Heisey from She Does the City - a fashion and night life web publication based in Toronto - about Steel Bananas’ new salon series, [...]]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/my-recent-interview-with-she-does-the-city/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/on-high-in-blue-tomorrows http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/on-high-in-blue-tomorrows#comments Thu, 10 Jun 2010 07:53:32 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1828 “You know what whores do?” Supernatural horror, women in trouble, destructive lust, and shame. “My friend Niko who lives in Pomona has a blonde wig, she wears it at parties, but she is on hard drugs and turning tricks now. She looks very good in her blonde wig, just like a movie star. Even girls fall [...]]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/on-high-in-blue-tomorrows/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/woman-from-raska http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/woman-from-raska#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:10:22 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1822 small pink bodies treading water with toes under the surface of glass i can’t breathe in here: tomato juice and vodka on your breath speaking blood tongues for what i won’t give you, your small bare breasts a sweet reminder of victories from years ago, our impasse now large enough to suggest why it was never meant to last. i’ll still brush your hair when the masses are [...]]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/woman-from-raska/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/jostle-together http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/jostle-together#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:31:46 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1817 Last year’s Steel Bananas anthology GULCH: An Assemblage of Poetry and Prose is on sale until June 30th as part of Tightrope’s blowout book sale. Below is the assemblage’s cut-up prologue and my poem “(MY)RIAD”. Enjoy! ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/jostle-together/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/anti-globalization-altermodernity http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/anti-globalization-altermodernity#comments Tue, 25 May 2010 21:22:15 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1749 “Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.” - Albert Camus ‘What better characterises this period than the mythification of origins? The meaning of a work of art, for this second-stage postmodernism, depends essentially on the [...]]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/anti-globalization-altermodernity/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/long-live-free-drawings http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/long-live-free-drawings#comments Mon, 24 May 2010 02:40:13 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1744 LONG LIVE FREE DRAWINGS | Starla Bontecou ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/long-live-free-drawings/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/les-yeux-sans-visage-fanzine http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/les-yeux-sans-visage-fanzine#comments Sat, 22 May 2010 20:32:48 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1716 Les Yeux Sans Visage Un Fanzine par Starla Bontecou en l’honneur de Georges Franju Toronto, 2010 Couverture: Extraits: ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/les-yeux-sans-visage-fanzine/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/neo-harmonics http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/neo-harmonics#comments Tue, 18 May 2010 20:40:07 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1702 Neo-Harmonics: Notes on the Body in Post-Millennium Performance Art A Manifesto by Starla Bontecou | Originally published in Steel Bananas 19 “The self-image of Modernity that is rooted in bodily experience cannot wholly be grasped in this current preoccupation with the emblematic character of the body as a kind of social advertisement. In fact, the quality of [...]]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/neo-harmonics/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/the-faun http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/the-faun#comments Mon, 17 May 2010 19:27:39 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1692 The Afternoon of a Faun | Starla Bontecou | TransCanaDADA | 2010 Acrylic & Collage on Canvas 1.2m x 1.4m (4 feet x 4.5 feet) Photos courtesy of Curran and a cellphone camera ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/the-faun/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/jerry http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/jerry#comments Sat, 15 May 2010 00:31:28 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1689 Jerry | Starla Bontecou | 2010 ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/jerry/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/goggles http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/goggles#comments Tue, 11 May 2010 23:40:50 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1684 Goggles | Starla Bontecou | 2010 ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/goggles/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/twosthrees http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/twosthrees#comments Mon, 10 May 2010 02:09:26 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1678 TWOS&THREES | Starla Bontecou | 2010 ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/twosthrees/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/pastorale http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/pastorale#comments Sun, 09 May 2010 22:47:44 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1671 Pastorale | Starla Bontecou | TransCanadada Motorway Services | 2010 ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/pastorale/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/rare-prose-by-bp-nichol http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/rare-prose-by-bp-nichol#comments Fri, 07 May 2010 20:01:06 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1661 It’s refreshing to spend time with someone who has as much of a crippling book fetish as I do. My friend Max has known me for almost seven years now, and throughout that time he has learned extensively about my taste; the books that get me off, the editions of my dreams. As a graduation [...]]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/rare-prose-by-bp-nichol/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/charlotte-moorman http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/charlotte-moorman#comments Fri, 07 May 2010 09:23:40 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1649 Within the next few months I’ll be preparing my PhD applications, since my MA is only three terms and my booklust is still in full swing. My first choice right now is NYU, so lately I’ve been revisiting avant-garde artists whom I really love who also made big splashes when they hit NYC. Charlotte Moorman [...]]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/charlotte-moorman/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/caribou-fanzine http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/caribou-fanzine#comments Tue, 04 May 2010 06:52:34 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1625 Never met a math man I didn’t like. What a show! Andorra and The Milk of Human Kindness are/were my favourites, but Swim is really putting up a good fight. Still vibrating from those drums, oh, those drums… Cover: Excerpts: ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/caribou-fanzine/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/glass http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/glass#comments Sun, 02 May 2010 19:17:30 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1616 Glass | Starla Bontecou | 2010 40”x 50” collage (50”x 70” framed) For Curran ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/glass/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/kids-with-beards http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/kids-with-beards#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 01:23:17 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1596 Starla Bontecou as a child | Starla Bontecou | TransCanadada Motorway Services | 2010 Kids with Beards: a meditation on wisdom by Starla Bontecou as part of TransCanadada Motorway Services. (5.5 x 8.5 inch zine) Cover: Excerpts: ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/kids-with-beards/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/unsweetened-apple-juice http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/unsweetened-apple-juice#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:46:35 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1590 Late nights with good company and so many of these tiny juice boxes. 5:45 AM: April 30th 2010 | Starla Bontecou | 2010 ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/unsweetened-apple-juice/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/cirque-existentielle http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/cirque-existentielle#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 01:59:16 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1576 Cirque Existenielle: an existential instruction pamphlet by Starla Bontecou. Cover: Excerpts: Back Cover: Available wherever NU zines are sold. ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/cirque-existentielle/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/frederique http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/frederique#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:10:43 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1565 Frédérique | Starla Bontecou | 2010 ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/frederique/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/jai-quitte-la-melancolie http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/jai-quitte-la-melancolie#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 06:08:27 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1548 J’ai quitté la mélancolie | Starla Bontecou | 2010 Collage on 18″x 24″ Canvas ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/jai-quitte-la-melancolie/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/augusto-de-campos http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/augusto-de-campos#comments Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:06:25 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1540 Sua poesia é deliciosa. - - ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/augusto-de-campos/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/eudaemonia http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/eudaemonia#comments Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:25:16 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1536 From Ich Habe Genug | Maira Kalman | 2006 ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/eudaemonia/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/sb-18 http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/sb-18#comments Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:35:29 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1518 WHOA! Issue 18 of Steel Bananas has hit the web hard with nostalgia, manifestos, anti-processes and a burrito odyssey unlike any other! It also features interviews with Executive Director of the Toronto Cyclists Union Yvonne Bambrick, neo-psychedelic visual artist Mars-1, Phil Klygo of Weewerk Records, Tamara Lindeman of The Weather Station, character actor Doug [...]]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/sb-18/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/canadada-call-for-submissions http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/canadada-call-for-submissions#comments Sat, 17 Apr 2010 08:18:42 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1513 DADA comes down from the mountain to preach the gospel of pie, and declares the re-emergence of personal agency. ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/canadada-call-for-submissions/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/girls-night-with-damian-rogers-dani-couture-erin-brandenburg-and-melanie-janisse http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/girls-night-with-damian-rogers-dani-couture-erin-brandenburg-and-melanie-janisse#comments Sat, 17 Apr 2010 06:28:37 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1506 I’ll be the host for the next installment of Steel Bananas’ Monthly Eggplant Reading Series. This installment has an incredible lineup, including Erin Brandenburg, Dani Couture, Damian Rogers and Melanie Janisse! About these fantastic women: Damian Rogers was born and raised in suburban Detroit and now lives in Toronto, Canada. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the [...]]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/girls-night-with-damian-rogers-dani-couture-erin-brandenburg-and-melanie-janisse/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/procedure http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/procedure#comments Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:27:45 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1495 TRANSCANADADA PROCEDURE INSTRUCTIONS: The surgeon will begin by exposing the chest cavity through a cut in the ribcage. The surgeon will then open the pericardium (a membrane that covers the entire heart) in order to remove your diseased heart. The back part of your own left atrium will be left in place, but the rest of [...]]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/procedure/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/qui-etes-vous-polly-maggoo http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/qui-etes-vous-polly-maggoo#comments Sun, 11 Apr 2010 22:43:10 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1488 http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/qui-etes-vous-polly-maggoo/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/what-is-post-millennium-humanism http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/what-is-post-millennium-humanism#comments Fri, 09 Apr 2010 23:15:19 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1480 “Our point of departure is, indeed, the subjectivity of the individual, and that for strictly philosophic reasons. It is not because we are bourgeois, but because we seek to base our teaching upon the truth, and not upon a collection of fine theories, full of hope but lacking real foundations. And at the point of [...]]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/what-is-post-millennium-humanism/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/introducing-the-gentleman http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/introducing-the-gentleman#comments Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:46:45 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1477 The Gentleman | Starla Bontecou | 2010 ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/introducing-the-gentleman/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/a-wash http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/a-wash#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:17:47 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1459 A Wash | Starla Bontecou | 2010 ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/a-wash/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/recurring-dream http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/recurring-dream#comments Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:04:33 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1442 Faces | Starla Bontecou | 2010 I re-experienced my only recurring nightmare last night after a three year hiatus. This was the fourth time since I was fifteen. ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/recurring-dream/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/neon-indian-washed-out http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/neon-indian-washed-out#comments Sun, 04 Apr 2010 02:04:22 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1436 …are keeping me alive right now. ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/neon-indian-washed-out/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/everything-in-heaven-is-tv http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/everything-in-heaven-is-tv#comments Sat, 03 Apr 2010 20:45:30 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1431 What? ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/everything-in-heaven-is-tv/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/slapp-happy http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/slapp-happy#comments Fri, 02 Apr 2010 04:45:49 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1416 Another crippling obsession from 1973: A Virgin Records re-issue (after Polydor scrapped it) of ”Casablanca Moon” by English/German avant-pop Slapp Happy with members of Faust. Later it became “Acnalbasac Noom” with Recommended Records. Under any name or label, it’s delightful and delicious. ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/slapp-happy/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/polemics http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/polemics#comments Fri, 02 Apr 2010 02:57:02 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1385 http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/polemics/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/hungry-restless-wicked-and-wild http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/hungry-restless-wicked-and-wild#comments Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:12:50 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1368 Sitting on the curb outside the pizza place, hair frizzy from the mist off the falls, your headphones on my ears, New Kind of Love blaring. Slow conversation. Laughter. A bus ride home with knees against the seat, summer air on our palms out the window, swapping songs, shoulder to shoulder. Bon Iver, our realization [...]]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/hungry-restless-wicked-and-wild/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/beach-house-the-opera-house http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/beach-house-the-opera-house#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 05:04:02 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1345 The woman, known for her immovable will and composure, renowned for her impenetrable nerve, indifferent to all but the very few who can capture her, remarks: Oh, my heart, my heart, my heart! ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/beach-house-the-opera-house/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/checkup http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/checkup#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:36:57 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1335 Checkup | Donald Burgy | 1969/1970 ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/checkup/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/nu-2 http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/nu-2#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 03:15:53 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1318 New NU graphic poetry and illustration print zines are on their way! Cover designs by Starla Bontecou. Volume 1: ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/nu-2/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/youre-so-vain-you-probably-think-this-song-is-about-you-dont-you http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/youre-so-vain-you-probably-think-this-song-is-about-you-dont-you#comments Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:26:51 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1303 I wouldn’t usually quote Carly Simon, but I’ve had a long day. New Motor Queen City by Patricia Seamen and the people I love are keeping my spirits up and alive. ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/youre-so-vain-you-probably-think-this-song-is-about-you-dont-you/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/metaphysics-of-morals http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/metaphysics-of-morals#comments Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:35:50 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1294 Starla Bontecou | Metaphysics of Morals ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/metaphysics-of-morals/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/something-to-perform http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/something-to-perform#comments Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:00:23 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1285 George Brecht | Chair Event ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/something-to-perform/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/for-kazu http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/for-kazu#comments Tue, 23 Mar 2010 03:34:16 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1282 ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/for-kazu/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/the-man-you-script http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/the-man-you-script#comments Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:16:18 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1275 My current obsession: sensory deprivation/ dream poetics by damian lopes. ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/the-man-you-script/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/bramble http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/bramble#comments Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:46:54 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1254 http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/bramble/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/sb-17 http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/sb-17#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:39:55 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1249 Seventeen issues already? This one packs a punch with writings on Proust in the bathtub, post-millennium architecture, Canadian Music Week, Indie Dance in Toronto, Spiderman sleeping with his roommate, Axe Cop’s baby plans, Theatre Bassaris, and much more, including Leonard the breakdancing cat who is totally hopped up on illegal stimulants. Yes. ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/sb-17/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/cmw-handsome-furs-the-darcys http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/cmw-handsome-furs-the-darcys#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:29:43 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1245 I’ve been super busy this week with thesis work and design work for Tightrope, so I missed out on CMW’s Thursday lineups, while Curran held down the fort festival-wise. Friday, however, was a better night for me. Prior to hopping out for CMW festivities, I travelled west on College Street to a tiny hole in [...]]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/cmw-handsome-furs-the-darcys/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/cmw-the-bonfire-ball-fucked-up http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/cmw-the-bonfire-ball-fucked-up#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:25:47 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1215 Canadian Music Week, compared to NXNE, may not have as many bands I’d really like to see, and may push headliners that alienate people who really like music, but who can really complain about a handful of badass acts playing venues all over Toronto? Plus, with a media pass through Steel Bananas, I can avoid [...]]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/cmw-the-bonfire-ball-fucked-up/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/come-see-the-duck http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/come-see-the-duck#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:10:03 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1209 http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/come-see-the-duck/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/konvolut-n http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/konvolut-n#comments Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:39:18 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1203 ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/konvolut-n/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/la-fiction-noir http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/la-fiction-noir#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:51:55 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1196 Perhaps it’s my love of gruesome fetish, or just my lust for gappy-toothed models like Lara Stone, but I love last year’s La Fiction Noir editorial spread in Vogue Paris by Steven Klein. This PG selection really makes me wonder how delicious this shoot could have been. Blood, bondage, and face-paint with a minor in [...]]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/la-fiction-noir/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/excuses http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/excuses#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:41:18 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1190 http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/excuses/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/sb-presents http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/sb-presents#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:31:14 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1182 Steel Bananas Presents: Jane’s Party, The Rucksack Willies and Hemingway Pop, Country & Funk at the Rivoli, March 19th! Spring is nigh and our good friends, Toronto’s frighteningly charming folk-pop “Rubber Soul” enthusiasts Jane’s Party will be hitting the Rivoli with an alarming force March 19 for what will no doubt be the best possible way for [...]]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/sb-presents/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/i-suggest-we-go-to-paris-instead http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/i-suggest-we-go-to-paris-instead#comments Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:17:38 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1167 I am officially and madly obsessed with Maira Kalman. Exploring her work has truly been one of those prize experiences of vast and calamitous emotional movement. I love her bright colours, simple charming captions and beautiful bareness. She moves from existential longing to mundane musing with grace and ease, possessing an honesty that is remarkably [...]]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/i-suggest-we-go-to-paris-instead/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/purge-the-world-of-dead-art http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/purge-the-world-of-dead-art#comments Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:40:50 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1152 Joseph Beuys, 1970. ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/purge-the-world-of-dead-art/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/ted-dawson-and-avant-garde-notation http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/ted-dawson-and-avant-garde-notation#comments Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:27:19 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1134 I met award-winning avant-garde composer/Professor Ted Dawson just over year ago in February 2009 at the opening of the Permeate Exhibit at the Music Gallery in Toronto, an art show exploring intersections between music and visual art. Before then, I knew nothing of avant-garde visual notation (I still can’t say I’ve performed any, though I [...]]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/ted-dawson-and-avant-garde-notation/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/games http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/games#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:36:33 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1118 ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/games/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/ginette-lapalme http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/ginette-lapalme#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:18:24 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1113 Ginette Lapalme is a wicked illustrator from Toronto that I recently stumbled upon while searching out more work of the much beloved Michael Comeau. I’m obsessed with her obsession with cats. ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/ginette-lapalme/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/cat-people http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/cat-people#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:56:06 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1108 “She was one of the dreaded ‘Cat People’ - doomed to slink and prowl and court by night . . . fearing always that a lover’s kiss might change her into a snarling, clawing KILLER!” This B-movie from 1942 is too good to be true… ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/cat-people/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/paris http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/paris#comments Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:20:38 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1104 …in 69 days! I’m already trembling with excitement. I just sent off my volunteer application to Terry at Shakespeare & Co. so I might be lending a hand in the most renowned bookstore in the world! Even if they reject me because they’re up to their ears with young volunteer writers from around the globe, [...]]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/paris/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/if-i-were-man-and-you-a-dog http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/if-i-were-man-and-you-a-dog#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:29:47 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1098 I’d throw a stick for you. ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/if-i-were-man-and-you-a-dog/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/i-talk-fast-interview-in-the-maker-culture-podcast-series http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/i-talk-fast-interview-in-the-maker-culture-podcast-series#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:06:38 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1095 I was recently interviewed as part of the Maker Culture Podcast Series, discussing the love of the home-grown SB not-fot-profit and GULCH. Listen to episode six here. I talk fast. From the series: In this episode, we get our hands around all types of home brewed media—from books to music. What drives people to get out the [...]]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/i-talk-fast-interview-in-the-maker-culture-podcast-series/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/artichoke http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/artichoke#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:25:23 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1101 ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/artichoke/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/profound-clarity http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/profound-clarity#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:43:11 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1092 I had an epiphany while standing on the corner of Parliament and Carlton today with Curran. We just left Jet Fuel after a particularly fruitful attack on my thesis when I was hit with a profound change of mood and a completely new vision. The world literally looks and feels different to me. I’ve been [...]]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/profound-clarity/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/taxali-nickle-dino-porn-winterlicious-and-more http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/taxali-nickle-dino-porn-winterlicious-and-more#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:23:51 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1080 Issue 16 of SB for February 2010 is alive, bursting with new faces, new essays, new interviews, and beautiful artwork! For this issue I interviewed the guys from the Ferno House micro-press along with their recent collaborators from the The Emergency Response Unit chapbook press. The cover spot went to Devon Wong’s interview with horror [...]]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/taxali-nickle-dino-porn-winterlicious-and-more/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/southern-souls http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/southern-souls#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:53:24 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1075 Up late watching Mitch Fillon’s Southern Souls videos from southern Ontario musicians. Best thing to happen since my beloved Blogotheque. Gravity Wave’s is particularly good. Beautiful music is everywhere. ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/southern-souls/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/made-for-living http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/made-for-living#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:19:01 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1071 Made for Living | Starla Bontecou | 2010 ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/made-for-living/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/oh-yeah-i-forgot-to-tell-you http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/oh-yeah-i-forgot-to-tell-you#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:15:28 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1063 I started a new fashion blog. Lord knows I don’t need another goddamn weblog, but I talk about fashion enough to warrant a place where I can keep my button ramblings. I also wanted to use a picture that I made of dog-headed women in design somewhere, so voila! ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/oh-yeah-i-forgot-to-tell-you/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/thought-is-made-in-the-mouth http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/thought-is-made-in-the-mouth#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:15:18 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1056 Feeling productive… ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/thought-is-made-in-the-mouth/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/nu-horizons http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/nu-horizons#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:50:45 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1047 NU zine cover spread | Print | 2010 ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/nu-horizons/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/girls http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/girls#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:18:35 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1038 You know the score. GIRLS | Starla Bontecou | 2010 ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/girls/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/le-cok-boy-chante http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/le-cok-boy-chante#comments Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:04:52 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1033 the perennial mystery: was it absurdity or existentialism? Le Cok Boy chante | Starla Bontecou | 2010 ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/le-cok-boy-chante/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/crayon-bleu http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/crayon-bleu#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:06:06 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1030 Birot. From Dada 3, December 1918. ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/crayon-bleu/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/the-great-digital-film-festival http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/the-great-digital-film-festival#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:03:21 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1023 I can’t lie: I don’t often find myself in the area of the Scotiabank (formerly The Paramount) Theatre these days. Perhaps it’s the blaring club-tunes and limousines full of drunk suburban high-school girls crying on their Blackberries on Richmond Street, or maybe I left the Entertainment district in that era of my life when hobos [...]]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/the-great-digital-film-festival/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/simone-lueck http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/simone-lueck#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:17:23 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1004 During today’s ritual e-digging I came across simone lueck from L.A. - a woman whose small portfolio of photographs, mostly of glamorous older women, really clubbed me over the head. “Making pictures in LA is good” she writes on her main page, “It’s like sifting through an old trunk filled with worn out fan letters [...]]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/simone-lueck/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/periodicaustic http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/periodicaustic#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:17:18 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=1000 ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/periodicaustic/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/carnaval-carnival http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/carnaval-carnival#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:28:23 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=968 Carnaval Carnival | Starla Bontecou | 2010 ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/carnaval-carnival/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/mb-dro-roshi http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/mb-dro-roshi#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:39:07 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=962 “What’s this? What’re the antagonists doing here - infiltrating their own audience? Well, they’re not, really. It’s somebody else’s audience at the moment, and these nightly spectacles are an appreciable part of the darkside-hours life of the Rocket-capital. The chances for any paradox here, really, are less than you think.” Zak Smith, did it eat [...]]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/mb-dro-roshi/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/les-cahiers-purple http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/les-cahiers-purple#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:29:42 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=958 I love the Purple Journal out of Paris. ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/les-cahiers-purple/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/meet-the-family http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/meet-the-family#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:05:12 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=951 Meet the Family | Starla Bontecou | 2010 ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/meet-the-family/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/repulsion http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/repulsion#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:07:27 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=947 Repulsion: Roman Polanski, 1965. Deneuve is a smokin’ babe, but totally a crazy bitch. ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/repulsion/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/during-the-pow-wow http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/during-the-pow-wow#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:42:56 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=943 ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/during-the-pow-wow/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/treading-water http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/treading-water#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:50:31 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=933 six shifts, shards pieces of sounds more familiar, he- moving forward untamed, moving backward jerking like a handful of collar, like a sudden meeting of surfaces, one absorbing the momentum of outstretched hands maintain the border with fingertips circling eject, fondling the end, seducing with the ghost of lack, blank look, some sort of void emotion, urge to hate and tear and eat all love like the deserving, like retribution only in unfeeling, gin haze eyes more honest than ever [...]]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/treading-water/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/on-a-residents-kick http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/on-a-residents-kick#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:29:59 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=914 http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/on-a-residents-kick/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/my-mom-writes-poetry-come-up-to-my-room-the-gladstone http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/my-mom-writes-poetry-come-up-to-my-room-the-gladstone#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:35:23 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=895 Today has been great: I’m nearly done the first chapter of my thesis, I already handed off my intro for scrutiny, and I had a great meeting with Esscain, who tossed me a bunch of books he edited under the implosion imprint with Insomniac Press. Very fucking cool. I’m feeling really focused and on top [...]]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/my-mom-writes-poetry-come-up-to-my-room-the-gladstone/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/michael-comeau http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/michael-comeau#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:30:39 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=889 I really should be working on my thesis - honing my first chapter to toss under Esscain’s scrutiny tomorrow - but I’ve hit a hump and am entirely side-tracked looking at art by Michael Comeau. A friend of mine recently acquired an amazingly rare (and huge) mixed-media piece from this wicked local artist, and I [...]]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/michael-comeau/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/transcanadada http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/transcanadada#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:51:05 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=885 VROOM. Feeling inspired: ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/transcanadada/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/professional-non-smokers http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/professional-non-smokers#comments Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:52:09 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=856 Pricks and replica kits of red and black, yeah. ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/professional-non-smokers/feed http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/sheditorial http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/sheditorial#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:59:17 +0000 Karen Correia Da Silva http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/?p=850 A note from the editor in this month’s issue of Steel Bananas: ]]> http://fruitlet.steelbananas.com/sheditorial/feed